McAllister Caroline D, Russell Margaret L
Department of Community Health and Family Medicine, University of Toronto.
Can J Public Health. 2004 Mar-Apr;95(2):142-5. doi: 10.1007/BF03405783.
Travel Counsellors may be a source of health advice to travellers and might influence travellers' decisions to seek consultation from health professionals. We examined the travel health advice that Alberta travel counsellors currently provide their clients and assessed their health knowledge and practices.
Cross-sectional postal survey of travel counsellors who book international trips identified from a random sample of Alberta travel agencies in 2000.
The response rate was 54.4%. Over 80% of respondents routinely provide clients with general health advice, and approximately 70% advise on malaria risk and vaccines required for travel. The risk of malaria was correctly identified by 72% of the respondents who frequently book clients to malarious destinations. Most respondents (79%) thought they should be involved in promoting the health of international travellers. Their preference was to provide health advice to their clients (90%) rather than refer them to a health professional (67%).
A large proportion of Alberta travel counsellors provided travel-related health advice to clients. Their preferred role of counselling rather than referring conflicts with the recommendations of the International Society of Travel Medicine.
旅行顾问可能是旅行者健康建议的一个来源，并且可能影响旅行者向健康专业人员咨询的决定。我们研究了艾伯塔省旅行顾问目前向其客户提供的旅行健康建议，并评估了他们的健康知识和做法。
2000年从艾伯塔省旅行社的随机样本中确定对预订国际旅行的旅行顾问进行横断面邮政调查。
回复率为54.4%。超过80%的受访者定期向客户提供一般健康建议，约70%的人就疟疾风险和旅行所需疫苗提供建议。经常为前往疟疾流行目的地的客户预订行程的受访者中，72%正确识别了疟疾风险。大多数受访者（79%）认为他们应该参与促进国际旅行者的健康。他们更倾向于向客户提供健康建议（90%），而不是将他们转介给健康专业人员（67%）。
很大一部分艾伯塔省旅行顾问向客户提供与旅行相关的健康建议。他们更喜欢提供咨询而不是转介的角色与国际旅行医学协会的建议相冲突。
